I think the issue was that the results were not being replicated when conducting the research in the same manner therefore some saying the results had no validity. I am sure it was the hormone results i.e. Cortisol and testosterone that they had inconclusive results on. Cuddy stayed quiet for a long while on this matter and it was only about 2 months ago that she came out with her response.

Personally I feel that power posing does in fact work as I have utilised this prior to my interview for university and perhaps it was a placebo effect, but I did feel more confident and calm going in!

Further to that here is another article I would recommend anyone read as it describes the dog eat dog world that is science and how hard it is when new research is put out into the public.

Yes I did see that from Amy Cuddy. I haven't read the whole thing, but I do plan on doing it. It's quite long I feel.

And I will read the second link you sent as well.

This is one frustrating part about not knowing how to scientifically decipher truth from falsehoods. I feel that I am not qualified to take Amy Cuddy's side or the side of her opposition because I don't know how to determine who is right or wrong.

I will admit that I am siding with her opposition out of a gut feeling, which is completely non-scientific and could therefore be wrong.

Hi @Liam, @TheScottishChick was right when she said it was the hormone results- they weren't replicated. However the 'power posing' effects of feeling more powerful have been replicated, which is the most important part of it, hormonal changes being secondary to that.

And one question about Dana Carney. When she wrote about how she felt about the effects of power posing, she didn't seem to make a distinction between hormones and feeling powerful. She seemed to have been talking about any effects from power posing. Did I read her pdf wrong? Or is she going too far?

And just so I understand, what makes someone feel powerful? If there are no changes in testosterone levels, are there other types of changes that make someone feel powerful? Would you happen to be referring to a placebo effect?

Hi, I have done some research today. And 7 years after Amy cuddy's research and her results are still not reproduced. So i think it is safe to say that power posing and the coinciding effects are due to the Pygmalion effect, selffullfiling prophecy and the placebo effect. Also many of the studies also report no significant effect on other people and internal processes [ Klaschinski and Schnabel et al (2017), Bennett and Oller et al (2017), Keller and Johnson et al (2017)].

So if you believe it is true like TheScottishChick probable did (i am doing an educated guess) this could have effect on your overall confidence. Also i think the effects per gender could differ. Men tend to be more confident due to testosterone and seem to be more sensitive to power associated behavior [Bombari and Schmid Mast et al (2017)]. Another article suggests that the time people adopt the power pose in these experiment settings is to short (<2 minutes) to exhibit noticeable changes, this could also be the reason why further research does not reproduce A. Cuddy's research [Jackson and Nault et al (2017)]. Also in another review they looked at the statistics of Cuddy's interpretation and they found some inconsistencies which could indicate mistakes from Cuddy's team [Credé and Phillips et al (2017)].